2016 Kazakhstan Premier League

Kazakhstan Premier League

Season	2016
Matches played	53
Goals scored	113 (2.13 per match)
← 2015 2017 → All statistics correct as of 5 May 2016.

The 2016 Kazakhstan Premier League is the 25th season of the Kazakhstan Premier League, the highest football league competition in Kazakhstan. Astana were the defending champions having won their first league championship the previous year.

Teams

FC Kaisar was relegated at the end of the 2015 season, and was replaced by Akzhayik.

Team overview

Aktobe

Akzhayik

Atyrau

Irtysh

Kairat

Astana

Okzhetpes

Ordabasy

Shakhter

Taraz

Tobol

Zhetysu

Locations of teams in the 2016 Kazakhstan Premier League

Team	Location	Venue	Capacity
Aktobe	Aktobe	Aktobe Central Stadium	15,000
Akzhayik	Oral	Petr Atoyan Stadium	8,320
Astana	Astana	Astana Arena	30,000
Atyrau	Atyrau	Munaishy Stadium	8,690
Irtysh	Pavlodar	Pavlodar Central Stadium	15,000
Kairat	Almaty	Almaty Central Stadium	25,057
Okzhetpes	Kokshetau	Okzhetpes Stadium	4,158
Ordabasy	Shymkent	Kazhimukan Munaitpasov Stadium	35,000
Shakhter	Karagandy	Shakhter Stadium	20,000
Taraz	Taraz	Taraz Central Stadium	11,525
Tobol	Kostanay	Kostanay Central Stadium	010,500
Zhetysu	Taldykorgan	Zhetysu Stadium	04,000

Personnel and kits

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players and Managers may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Team	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Shirt sponsor
Aktobe	Yuri Utkulbayev	Samat Smakov	Lotto	—
Akzhayik	Talgat Baysufinov	Predrag Govedarica	Adidas	Expo 2017
Astana	Stanimir Stoilov	Tanat Nusserbayev	Adidas	Samruk-Kazyna
Atyrau	Vladimir Nikitenko	Zhasur Narzikulov	Adidas	—
Irtysh	Dimitar Dimitrov	David Loria	Nike	ENRC
Kairat	Kakhaber Tskhadadze	Bauyrzhan Islamkhan	Nike	Expo 2017
Okzhetpes	Vladimir Mukhanov	Alibek Buleshev	Adidas	Chempionat
Ordabasy	Bakhtiyar Bayseitov	Azat Nurgaliev	Adidas	TAU
Shakhter	Jozef Vukušič	Maksat Baizhanov	Adidas	—
Taraz	Nurmat Mirzabayev	Dmitri Yevstigneyev	Adidas	—
Tobol		Nurbol Zhumaskaliyev	Adidas	—
Zhetysu	Almas Kulshinbaev	Andrey Pasechenko	Adidas	—

Foreign players

The number of foreign players is restricted to eight per KPL team. A team can use only five foreign players on the field in each game.

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Player 7	Player 8
Aktobe	Kouassi Kouadja	Nikita Bocharov	Marat Sitdikov	Yegor Sorokin	Sandro Tsveiba	Mikhail Petrolay	Ilya Mikhalyov	Bobir Davlatov
Akzhayik	Saša Kolunija	Oleg Hromțov	Freddy Coronel	Danilo Nikolić
Astana	Marin Aničić	Roger Cañas	Patrick Twumasi	Besart Abdurahimi	Lukman Haruna	Đorđe Despotović	Nemanja Maksimović
Atyrau	Aleksandr Makas	Guy Essame	Abdel Lamanje	Aleksandar Damčevski	Przemysław Trytko	Volodymyr Arzhanov	Vyacheslav Sharpar	Alexandru Curtean
Irtysh	Semir Kerla	Ignacio Herrera	Tomáš Jirsák	Ousman Jallow	Gogita Gogua	Georgas Freidgeimas	Carlos Fonseca	Djiby Fall
Kairat	Bruno Soares	Isael	Léandre Tawamba	Gerard Gohou	Andrey Arshavin	Žarko Marković	Lukáš Tesák	Anatoliy Tymoshchuk
Okzhetpes	Joseph Nane	Aleksandr Alkhazov	Daniil Chertov	Vitali Volkov	Risto Ristović	Saša Stamenković	Oleksandr Chyzhov
Ordabasy	Edin Junuzović	Filip Kasalica	Dominic Chatto	Abdoulaye Diakate	Aleksandar Simčević	Branislav Trajković	Miloš Trifunović	Alexander Geynrikh
Shakhter	Robert Arzumanyan	Ivan Sadownichy	Moshtagh Yaghoubi	Erfan Zeneli	Desley Ubbink	Július Szöke	Oleksiy Kurylov
Taraz	Ihar Zyankovich	Ioan Mera	Malick Mané	Dušan Đokić	Jovan Golić
Tobol	Tomáš Šimkovič	Fernander Kassaï	Denis Glavina	Alassane N'Diaye	Artūras Žulpa	Ciprian Deac	Kostyantyn Dudchenko	Serhiy Yavorskyi
Zhetysu	Filip Rudzik	Martin Klein	Boti Goa	Didier Kadio	Gjorgji Mojsov	Dušan Savić	Marko Simonovski	Marko Đalović

In bold: Players that have been capped for their national team.

Managerial changes

Team	Outgoing manager	Manner of departure	Date of vacancy	Position in table	Incoming manager	Date of appointment
Aktobe	Ioan Andone	Mutual consent	10 November 2015[1]	Pre-season	Yuri Utkulbayev	22 December 2015[2]
Taraz	Evgeny Yarovenko	Mutual consent	11 November 2015[3]		Nurmat Mirzabayev
Kairat	Vladimír Weiss	Mutual consent	30 November 2015[4]		Aleksandr Borodyuk	28 December 2015[5]
Shakhter	Ihor Zakharyak				Jozef Vukušič	8 January 2016[6]
Tobol	Sergey Maslenov				Dmitriy Ogai	23 December 2015
Zhetysu	Ivan Azovskiy				Almas Kulshinbaev	5 January 2016[7]
Kairat	Aleksandr Borodyuk	Resigned	5 April 2016[8]	9th	Kakhaber Tskhadadze	7 April 2016[9]
Tobol	Dmitriy Ogai	Mutual consent	28 April 2016[10]	5th

Regular season

In the regular season twelve teams played each other home-and-away in a round-robin format for a total of 22 matches per team. The top six teams advanced to the Championship round and the bottom six teams qualified for the Relegation round.^[11]

Regular season table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Astana	9	8	1	0	14	5	+9	25	Qualification to Championship round
2	Irtysh Pavlodar	9	7	2	0	20	4	+16	23
3	Okzhetpes	9	5	1	3	11	5	+6	16
4	Ordabasy	9	4	2	3	12	13	−1	14
5	Aktobe	9	3	3	3	9	12	−3	12
6	Kairat	9	3	2	4	9	7	+2	11
7	Tobol	8	3	2	3	11	10	+1	11	Qualification to Relegation round
8	Shakhter Karagandy	9	2	3	4	4	9	−5	9
9	Atyrau	8	1	4	3	5	9	−4	7
10	Akzhayik	9	2	1	6	3	11	−8	7
11	Zhetysu	9	1	3	5	8	15	−7	6
12	Taraz	9	1	2	6	7	13	−6	5

Updated to match(es) played on 5 May 2016. Source: UEFA.com, Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Matches won; 3) Head-to-head points; 4) Head-to-head matches won; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head goals scored; 7) Head-to-head away goals scored; 8) Goal difference; 9) Goals scored; 10) Away goals scored; 11) Draw.^[12]

Championship round

The top six teams from Regular season will participate in the Championship round where they will play each other home-and-away in a round-robin format for a total of 10 matches per team. They will start this round with their points from Regular season halved, rounded upwards, and they will keep their Regular season record (matches won, draws, losses and goal differential). After completion of the Championship round the winners will be the Champions of 2015 Kazakhstan Premier League and qualify for 2017–18 UEFA Champions League second qualifying round. The runners-up and third-placed team will qualify for Europa League first qualifying round and the fourth placed team may also qualify for Europa League if they or one of the top three teams wins the 2016 Kazakhstan Cup.^[11]

Championship round table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Team 1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification to Champions League second qualifying round
2	Team 2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification to Europa League first qualifying round
3	Team 3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
4	Team 4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
5	Team 5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
6	Team 6	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

First match(es) will be played on TBD. Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Play-off (only if deciding champion when two teams are tied); 3) Matches won; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head matches won; 6) Head-to-head goal difference; 7) Head-to-head goals scored; 8) Head-to-head away goals scored; 9) Goal difference; 10) Goals scored; 11) Away goals scored; 12) Play-off (only if deciding champion when three or teams are tied); 13) Draw.^[13]

Relegation round

The bottom six teams from Regular season will participate in the Relegation round where they will play each other home-and-away in a round-robin format for a total of 10 matches per team. They will start this round with their points from Regular season halved, rounded upwards, and they will keep their Regular season record (matches won, draws, losses and goal differential). After completion of the Relegation round the winners will be considered 7th-placed team of 2015 Kazakhstan Premier League, the runners-up will be 8th and so on, with the last team being 12th. The 11th-placed team will qualify for Relegation play-off against runners-up of 2016 Kazakhstan First Division, with the losing team being eliminated, and the 12th-placed team will be directly relegated to 2017 Kazakhstan First Division as the last-placed placed team.^[11]

Relegation round table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Relegation
7	Team 7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
8	Team 8	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	Team 9	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	Team 10	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
11	Team 11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Qualification to Relegation play-offs
12	Team 12	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	Relegation to Kazakhstan First Division

First match(es) will be played on TBD. Source: Soccerway
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Matches won; 3) Head-to-head points; 4) Head-to-head matches won; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head goals scored; 7) Head-to-head away goals scored; 8) Goal difference; 9) Goals scored; 10) Away goals scored; 11) Draw.^[14]

Statistics

Top scorers

As of matches played 5 May 2016^[15]

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Roman Murtazayev	Irtysh Pavlodar	6
2	Samat Smakov	Aktobe	4
	Gogita Gogua	Irtysh Pavlodar
	Đorđe Despotović	Astana
5	Edin Junuzović	Ordabasy	3
	Azat Nurgaliev	Ordabasy
	Alibek Buleshev	Okzhetpes
	Ihar Zyankovich	Taraz
	Dušan Savić	Zhetysu
	Przemysław Trytko	Atyrau

Scoring

• First goal of the season: Ulan Konysbayev for Atyrau against Zhetysu (12 March 2016)
• Fastest goal of the season: 8th minute,
  • Desley Ubbink for Shakhter Karagandy against Astana (12 March 2016)
• Latest goal of the season: 88th minute,
  • Vitali Li for Kairat against Taraz (12 March 2016)

References

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